Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32e1a99ce8aca60e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 19:35:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aa1992c2a90aa5979781bd78413c79c9 SHA-1: 56781013aa342c5eb364d0c30485ad74880a54ee SHA-256: 32e1a99ce8aca60e46b6773fd37e88f3aa88f152ea03ca108a898f807d6c4427
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and a link farm heuristic supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/54344955383.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meetburgerusa.com/uploads/files/11125198938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/zuzaxojexigujepofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tlc12vjl31u6s7eg0vdib9lq7/wifavoliridoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65bcdbe76cfda7d2977431e02a0d524/rogapabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210708104334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7efb10653---xowewegojedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8384697bc2986176a29375259913d0be/57147644700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/23070919771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1kkmipit0kjgcnh6v9bjonv3fl/14231484488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56onk6uhkllduljs26a93t7pnd/59332394688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b97a885167---mirodisegepureribuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081014223c94---65563044876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b8981f3fa3327adb6b563533785fcb/65386688934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea0f1c6b19---91016211190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab551754cce---97140979169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0f11c06f7---79431696458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a774de100c8f66e3b86d83d6c06f86c9/11100920943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a984a22fc---xutosodotizawatiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/6704552911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/lobitapisilidizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994a9a82ec7---nezurofolexodolilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55e2c7004bf1de5465b85d364d303ab/26948346338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=rice+university+paralegalPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11977 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 327054c5be84de0a3d95fea4222daf7b0bca28a8d073a20da78638f627a3aff2
font_01_sfnt_off00013263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13263 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9a5825e09bd10f4db4632c6cd987decad71e37bd008f1ab1c247f8d9230b6e
font_02_sfnt_off000160e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1